HP recalls 6 million laptop power cords that can pose fire and burn hazards
Hewlett-Packard has recalled more than 6 million laptop power cords that could pose fire and burn hazards. read more
Hewlett-Packard has recalled more than 6 million laptop power cords that could pose fire and burn hazards. read more
An unknown Android app took down the National Weather service site yesterday. Plus: Android's march to mobile dominance continues, and how can smartphones get better? read more
To beef up its cloud platform with more specialized packages, Google is acquiring Zync for its large scale rendering service for movie special effects, called Zync Render. read more
U.S. data centers use more electricity than they need, a new report finds, and IT managers are too cautious about managing power and businesses are unwilling to invest in energy conservation. read more
Jive Software has pushed out updates for the cloud versions of both its enterprise social networking (ESN) suite and its JiveX software for building external online communities. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a director of market intelligence at a Manhattan-based investor relations firm with insider trading ahead of impending news announcements by more than a dozen clients. The charges were filed against Michael Anthony Dupre Lucarelli, who garnered nearly $1 million in illicit profits. An …
The cybercriminal gang behind the Kelihos botnet is tricking users into installing malware on their computers by appealing to pro-Russian sentiments stoked by recent international sanctions against the country. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has named James Schnurr as its chief accountant. Mr. Schnurr will begin his new post in October. He will replace Paul A. Beswick, who joined the SEC staff in September 2007 and has served as its chief accountant since 2012. The SEC’s …
Has distrohopping lost its appeal for Linux users? Plus: A Linux user switches to Mac then comes back, and a journalist rages against having to recompile the Linux kernel. read more
Future versions of the Firefox OS mobile platform will allow users to control application-specific permissions, a feature with both privacy and security benefits that's missing on Android. read more
Chinese authorities say Microsoft has yet to fully comply with the government’s antimonopoly investigation, and they want more information about its media player and Web browser distribution. …
Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the event they are lost or stolen. …
Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the event they are lost or stolen. read more
Amazon will pay US$970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people's video gaming sessions. read more
Жители аннексированного полуострова в ближайшее время будут перезаключать договоры с “Укртелекомом”, пишет “Крыминформ”. …
The National Security Agency built a “Google-like” search engine to give domestic and international government agencies access to details of billions of calls, texts and instant messages sent by millions of people, according to The Intercept. …
Следственно-розыскные мероприятия оперативников милиции Житомирщины в рамках расследования уголовного производства по факту мошеннических махинаций позволили установить и задержать одного из фигурантов дела. Подозреваемая причастна к исчезновению 40 тысяч гривен, собранных благотворителями на лечение военнослужащего, тяжело раненного в зоне проведения антитеррористической операции. …
The U.S. National Security Agency built a "Google-like" search engine to give domestic and international government agencies access to details of billions of calls, texts and instant messages sent by millions of people, according to The Intercept. read more
Разработчики систем наблюдения сулят правительствам возможность отслеживать передвижения чуть ли не любого человека, который носит при себе мобильный телефон, утверждает The Washington Post. …
"Brave" is the current watchword for virtualization software giant VMware. read more
Amazon is acquiring Twitch, a video game live-streaming service, for $970 million. …
За прошедший месяц появилось огромное число утечек информации о новом смартпэде Motorola Moto S (Shamu). Изначально предполагалось, что данный аппарат пополнит линейку Nexus, но затем появились данные, согласно которым Moto S будет выпущен в качестве независимого устройства от Motorola. …
На конференции для разработчиков Google I/O 2014 компания LG представила свои первые “умные” часы G Watch, которые работают на платформе Android Wear. Теперь LG выпустила тизер G Watch R, которые, в отличие от оригинальных G Watch, получат дисплей круглой формы, что делает их более похожими на классические часы. К сожалению, …
A San Francisco startup that wants to provide daily updated satellite views of the entire planet has begun launching its second batch of satellites. read more
Google's Slides presentation app can now be used without an Internet connection on iOS devices, joining the two other core office productivity tools in the company's suite, the Docs word processor and Sheets spreadsheet software. read more
Интернет-подключение Charter Communications вышло из строя по всей территории страны. …